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10 Amazing Underground Homes

First Posted: 02/22/2012 12:33 pm Updated: 02/22/2012 12:54 pm

Underground Home
This modern and energy-efficient 15,000-square-foot home is built within a sandstone cave in Festus, Missouri. Built by Curt and Deborah Sleeper, the home features modern interiors that blend with the natural unfinished sandstone walls. Thanks to geothermal heating and clever design, there is no need for air conditioning or a furnace to heat/cool the home.

Oddee.com:

People spend thousands of dollars to reduplicate the natural insulation that comes from living underground.

Oddee has found 10 homes from people who decided not to reinvent the wheel, er, the underground home.

Read the whole story: Oddee.com

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bmermaid
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05:50 PM on 02/24/2012
If you like these, you'll love South Dakota's state museum- the Cultural heritage Center

http://library.byways.org/assets/52813